Quotes

Things turn out best for people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden

Education is not the filling of a
pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- W.B. Yeats

My hope for my children must be that
they respond to the still, small
voice of God in their own hearts.
- Andrew Young

I have an existential map. It has
'You are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright

When men are pure, laws are useless;
when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the
two always go together. When people ask your age,
he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury

Quotaria

Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden

"Assuming either the Left Wing or the
Right Wing gained control of the country,
it would probably fly around in circles."
- Pat Paulsen

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately
not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
- Robin Williams,
commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Francis Marie Arouet de Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

To be completely honest with oneself is the
very best effort a human being can make.
- Sigmund Freud

For to be possessed of good mental
powers is not sufficient; the principal
matter is to apply them well.
- Rene Descartes

Quotaria - Oneliners

"A little subversion is good for the soul."
- "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"

"How do I know about the world? By what is within me."
- Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching"

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
- Jules Feiffer

"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
- Christine Keeler

"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
- John Wooden